Taking his inspiration from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station, Kevin Kingsbury has taken a lot of components and built his own. The station includes a wind speed gauge, a wind direction finder, temperature, humidity, pressure and light sensors and a…
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Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. It’s a hard, plastic, spherical ball inside which is mounted a Raspberry Pi, a couple of batteries, a Neopixel strip and an accelerometer. By rolling the ball,…
Make your own Raspberry Pi powered mobile phone
Tyler Spadgenske has written an Instructable that shows you how to create your own mobile phone using a Raspberry Pi A+. He 3D-prints a case for the phone and then fills that case with components including an Adafruit FONA board (which…
Automated Raspberry Pi squirrel feeder
Blogger ‘ulfster’ decided he wanted to be kind to the wildlife in his garden. He has some squirrels that come into the garden but they were a little skittish around him when he tried to feed them. So, he struck…
Theatrical endeavour for one lucky Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ, who teaches at KESH Academy in Birmingham, had a problem: How to give a Tin Man a heart. For his school’s performances of The Wizard of Oz, he decided that a Raspberry Pi was the way to go.…
3D printed Spotify bear runs from a Raspberry Pi
Andreas Lindahl has 3D-printed a lovely bear and put it together with a Pi and some other components to create a cuddly Spotify player. Created as a way to get better at 3D modelling and printing, the bear has a…
Simple blinking of an LED on the Raspberry Pi
Ahhh, the famous Hello World program of the Pi 🙂 Jeremy Morgan has written this nice little tutorial to help you get started with using the GPIO to flash an LED. Read the tutorial here. Shameless plug: We do a…
Vintage meets modern in this Raspberry Pi PDP project
Oscar is a great fan of the PDP range of computers, in particular the PDP 8/I. He decided that, instead of getting hold of an existing vintage model, he would build a brand new one by using the Raspberry Pi…
Raspberry Pis used to track bees at Kew Gardens
This one is guaranteed to get my buzzing phobia going! A Newcastle-based engineer has developed a system to track the flight paths and behaviour of bees at London’s Kew Gardens. A pack consisting of a tiny RFID tag and an…
DIY oscilloscope uses a Raspberry Pi and LEGO!
Steve Schuler wanted to build an oscilloscope. He used LEGO, an Erector set, a LittleBits motor and a Raspberry Pi which generates the PWM necessary to drive the motor. The motor is hooked up to a spinning mirror that sweeps the laser…